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Please click on the following link and follow the steps patedu.com ---> select "English" ---> select "shingles"
This tutorial video explains a brief overview of herpes zoster, also known as shingles. It also provides a description of varicella zoster (chicken pox). It is published by The Patient Education Institute, and is provided for patient. The video was last reviewed on April 16, 2008. Information from the X-Plain health education program are current include authoritative medical information. General information is given and there is no specific medical advice. It uses simplified graphics to convey complex medical information.
Information on shingles includes symptoms, causes, complications, diagnosis and treatment. It consists of 56 slides, including graphics and animation and also contains a few interactive quizzes to ensure understanding of the subject. As the tutorial also includes a description of chicken pox, the difference between varicella zoster and herpes zoster is explored.
The information provided is not in-depth and as indicated it is for patient education. For a health professional this would be too brief and incomplete. The video does not portray bias views and no advertisement is used to promote products over others.
Despite this video being brief, I think it would be useful in the final showcase as part of an introduction to singles, as it would allow other students to have brief insight of the condition at first glance. Using an interactive video this can stimulate learning, than compared to the usual reading of a journal or article. However after watching this video, other resource should be sought to obtain a comprehensive understanding.
What does everyone think about this? Is it to brief for our learning? Or we can attach it along with a detailed document on shingles?
The tutorial is good for background knowledge. Perhaps we could add this to the final showcase as a 'further information' link. I say that because our target audience hasnt been well defined yet, but I had assumed that it was for new hospital staff. Do you know if there is a way to imbed the tutorial directly onto our page? Jane.
I've tried but I have not found a way. I would prefer it to be inbeded too. I'll see if I can find a way. Thuy Top
This article is about herpes zoster and was last updated on the 23rd of November 2009. The Authors have medical degrees qualifications ensuring high degree of expertise on the topic. This is published on eMedicine an American website, which is peer reviewed and revised by the author a physician or PharmD member of the editorial board.
The information presented is scholarly, providing information on the background, pathophysiology, clinical features, differential diagnoses, treatment, and follow-up. It is not fully detailed however it provides an overview of the topic that is useful. Its recent update makes it valid and updated.
The audience is to physicians and other health care professional. This would be useful to look at because of the use of reference to support the information. The author also use case trials to support information given.
A drawback with this article is it is not from Australia, giving statistical information from America. However the background, pathophysiology and clinical features can still be valid. Treatments options from the document is similar to Australian regimes, however Australian guidelines should be viewed instead.
This is a reliable source and can be use as back ground information on herpes zoster in the final showcase.
Hey Thuy definetly good background information on herpes however, as I found with a few of my articles the statistical information is a bit irrelevant because its from the U.S. Howvever, this can still be used to show incidences of course. This would be useful in the final showcase.
This is an interview between Michael Marcus, MD and an interviewer. Michael is from the Director Pediatric Allergy & Pulmonary, Maimonides Medical Center. The topic of tuberculosis (TB) is discussed.
Scope :
Definition of TB
Resistance to drug
Screening during pregnancy
Children exposed to TB by contact with adults with TB
Testing of suspicion and retest afterward to rule out TB
Contraction the disease (2.56min)
Vaccination to decrease the risk.
not recommended because of effectiveness, but used in high risk areas
Different type of the disease (6.37min)
infection and disease
Explanation, if spread to other organ and lungs they are disease
Treatment for infection is different for someone with disease
Infection not contagious only the person with full blown disease
This video would be useful to understand the transmission of the disease and the different type of disease.
This website is from the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing under the Pharmaceutical Benefit Scheme (PBS). This outlines which vaccines are subsidised under the PBS, requiring a price of $33.30 from consumers. It is indicated for health professionals. The two vaccines that are subsidised are pneumococcal vaccine and diphtheria and tetanus vaccine (Booster).
Under the staff immunisation in the NT; diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (Boostrix) is recommended for staff who have contact with young children. However only diphtheria and tetanus (Booster) is subsidised by the government, not pertussis. Other recommended immunisation vaccines for staff are not listed in the PBS.
This is useful as it covers all Australian which includes the NT population.
This could be used in the final show case to outline which vaccines are subsides by the government as appose to what is funded by the government.
This website is from the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet. It was last updated on the 16th of February 2010. It is made for the general public for better knowledge about the indigenous community.
I found this website particularly useful, because it summaries information about TB among indigenous people. It provides an introduction of what TB is, the prevalence of TB in recent years, incidence rate and prevention control of TB.
The two tables (new cases and crude incidence rate and age specific incidence rate) are presented in an summaries table that allow easy comparison for each category. Comparison of each states rate of new cases indicate that the NT has the highest rates compared to the rest of the Australia. Indigenous age 45-63 years old have the highest rates of new incidence, whereas 5-14 years old have the lowest rates. The table also shows that non-indigenous status have a lower incidence of new TB case.
Sources used for these statistics are from the National Tuberculosis Advisory Committe, a reliable source.
The tables from this website can be used in our final showcase to compare the incidence of TB in the NT to other states and the incidence rate of TB in different age groups.
This source will be very useful, Thuy. The TB incidence in the Indigenous population will be very representative of rates in the Northern Territory. It can be clearly seen that the rate in the NT is very high compared to the other states. Queensland is the next highest one, but the rate in the NT is still about 4 times as high. These statistics are very valid and will be very beneficial when we point out why it is crucial for healthcare workers in the NT to get vaccinated for TB.
Appraisal #1 Interactive video- herpes zoster
Table of Contents
Please click on the following link and follow the steps
patedu.com ---> select "English" ---> select "shingles"
This tutorial video explains a brief overview of herpes zoster, also known as shingles. It also provides a description of varicella zoster (chicken pox). It is published by The Patient Education Institute, and is provided for patient. The video was last reviewed on April 16, 2008. Information from the X-Plain health education program are current include authoritative medical information. General information is given and there is no specific medical advice. It uses simplified graphics to convey complex medical information.
Information on shingles includes symptoms, causes, complications, diagnosis and treatment. It consists of 56 slides, including graphics and animation and also contains a few interactive quizzes to ensure understanding of the subject. As the tutorial also includes a description of chicken pox, the difference between varicella zoster and herpes zoster is explored.
The information provided is not in-depth and as indicated it is for patient education. For a health professional this would be too brief and incomplete. The video does not portray bias views and no advertisement is used to promote products over others.
Despite this video being brief, I think it would be useful in the final showcase as part of an introduction to singles, as it would allow other students to have brief insight of the condition at first glance. Using an interactive video this can stimulate learning, than compared to the usual reading of a journal or article. However after watching this video, other resource should be sought to obtain a comprehensive understanding.
What does everyone think about this? Is it to brief for our learning? Or we can attach it along with a detailed document on shingles?
The tutorial is good for background knowledge. Perhaps we could add this to the final showcase as a 'further information' link. I say that because our target audience hasnt been well defined yet, but I had assumed that it was for new hospital staff.
Do you know if there is a way to imbed the tutorial directly onto our page?
Jane.
I've tried but I have not found a way. I would prefer it to be inbeded too. I'll see if I can find a way.
Thuy
Top
Appraisal #2 Article- herpes zoster
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/218683-overview
This article is about herpes zoster and was last updated on the 23rd of November 2009. The Authors have medical degrees qualifications ensuring high degree of expertise on the topic. This is published on eMedicine an American website, which is peer reviewed and revised by the author a physician or PharmD member of the editorial board.
The information presented is scholarly, providing information on the background, pathophysiology, clinical features, differential diagnoses, treatment, and follow-up. It is not fully detailed however it provides an overview of the topic that is useful. Its recent update makes it valid and updated.
The audience is to physicians and other health care professional. This would be useful to look at because of the use of reference to support the information. The author also use case trials to support information given.
A drawback with this article is it is not from Australia, giving statistical information from America. However the background, pathophysiology and clinical features can still be valid. Treatments options from the document is similar to Australian regimes, however Australian guidelines should be viewed instead.
This is a reliable source and can be use as back ground information on herpes zoster in the final showcase.
Hey Thuy definetly good background information on herpes however, as I found with a few of my articles the statistical information is a bit irrelevant because its from the U.S. Howvever, this can still be used to show incidences of course. This would be useful in the final showcase.
-Jonathan
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Appraisal #3 Video- tuberculosis
This is an interview between Michael Marcus, MD and an interviewer. Michael is from the Director Pediatric Allergy & Pulmonary, Maimonides Medical Center. The topic of tuberculosis (TB) is discussed.
Scope :
This video would be useful to understand the transmission of the disease and the different type of disease.
Top
Appraisal #4 Website- Vaccines subsidied by government
http://www.pbs.gov.au/html/healthpro/search/results?term=vaccine&scope=PBS+STATIC+WEB+NEWS&form-type=simple
This website is from the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing under the Pharmaceutical Benefit Scheme (PBS). This outlines which vaccines are subsidised under the PBS, requiring a price of $33.30 from consumers. It is indicated for health professionals. The two vaccines that are subsidised are pneumococcal vaccine and diphtheria and tetanus vaccine (Booster).
Under the staff immunisation in the NT; diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (Boostrix) is recommended for staff who have contact with young children. However only diphtheria and tetanus (Booster) is subsidised by the government, not pertussis. Other recommended immunisation vaccines for staff are not listed in the PBS.
This is useful as it covers all Australian which includes the NT population.
This could be used in the final show case to outline which vaccines are subsides by the government as appose to what is funded by the government.
Top
Appraisal #5 Website- tuberculosis among indigenous people
http://www.healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au/infectious-conditions/tuberculosis/reviews/our-review
This website is from the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet. It was last updated on the 16th of February 2010. It is made for the general public for better knowledge about the indigenous community.
I found this website particularly useful, because it summaries information about TB among indigenous people. It provides an introduction of what TB is, the prevalence of TB in recent years, incidence rate and prevention control of TB.
The two tables (new cases and crude incidence rate and age specific incidence rate) are presented in an summaries table that allow easy comparison for each category. Comparison of each states rate of new cases indicate that the NT has the highest rates compared to the rest of the Australia. Indigenous age 45-63 years old have the highest rates of new incidence, whereas 5-14 years old have the lowest rates. The table also shows that non-indigenous status have a lower incidence of new TB case.
Sources used for these statistics are from the National Tuberculosis Advisory Committe, a reliable source.
The tables from this website can be used in our final showcase to compare the incidence of TB in the NT to other states and the incidence rate of TB in different age groups.
This source will be very useful, Thuy. The TB incidence in the Indigenous population will be very representative of rates in the Northern Territory. It can be clearly seen that the rate in the NT is very high compared to the other states. Queensland is the next highest one, but the rate in the NT is still about 4 times as high. These statistics are very valid and will be very beneficial when we point out why it is crucial for healthcare workers in the NT to get vaccinated for TB.
- Gregory
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